Sphyraenidae
Barracudas
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2026-08-05: itis_id 170424 via WoRMS external link
A barracuda is a large, predatory, ray-finned, saltwater fish of the genus Sphyraena, the only genus in the family Sphyraenidae, which was named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1815.W CalCOFI holds 575 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, across 3 taxa under it.R
- 575
- observations
- 575
- records
- 1951–2019
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 2
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125565")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125565'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 1 taxon
- G Sphyraena575
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Carangaria incertae sedis
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sphyraena · source
- Photo · Graham McMartin · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Barracuda” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366499162
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗